Inflatable Bear, Hourly

A young immigrant actress, dressed as a costumed bear, faces a surreal odyssey in Berlin’s Soviet-era outskirts, where a chaotic birthday party blends humor, tragedy, and the echoes of a home she can’t forget

Elisabeth Werchosin was born in 1995 in Pskov, Russia, to a family of a German immigrant. Graduated as a film director from the Saint Petersburg University of Film and Television. Moved to Berlin in 2022. Besides working as an assistant director in filmmaking, participates in an independent journalist project as a photographer. Her latest short film, Inflatable Bear, Hourly, was selected for the International Competition at the 47th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival.